Praise for Franco Loi:
"The most powerful poetic personality of recent years."
—Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo

"Franco Loi has been one of the main protagonists of the renewal that dialect poetry experienced in the early seventies, thus establishing himself as a necessary reference pont for the authors of subsequent generations and above all as the model of an ethically committed poetry."
—Giuseppe Gallo

"The most recent representative of the great Milanese dialect literary tradition."
—Jury for the Premio Librex-Montale

"Loi’s poetic 'I' speaks in the first person but arises . . . from a deeply felt need for communion.. . . like the breviary of a believer who neglects nothing that lives."
—Giovanni Tesio
 
Praise for Andrew Frisardi's translation Giuseppe Ungaretti: Selected Poems:

"I am delighted to recommend . . . Andrew Frisardi's splendidly fresh and definitive new translation of Ungaretti's Selected Poems." -
—Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World

"An exceedingly valuable book . . . the ideal introduction . . . [to] Ungaretti's uncommonly beautiful verse."
—Bernard Knox, The New Republic

"Andrew Frisardi's translation is a major achievement."
—Phillis Levin

"These translations are true poems. . . . Andrew Frisardi translates the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti with remarkable grace, flexibility, and inventiveness."
—Rosanna Warren